Re: Indic scripts in terminal

[Douglas Allan Tutty <dtutty@porchlight.ca>]

On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 06:58:49PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
> My 'LANG' is 'ta_IN.UTF-8'. I am on an up-to-date Debian Testing computer.
> 
> I am using Latin script, and Tamil script in Gnome Terminal. The display
> gets slightly garbled around the Tamil text. I guess that this is because
> Vim is aware of Unicode characters that combine together, but Gnome Terminal
> is un-aware that when characters combine, they require as many cells as the
> number of characters that have combined. How can I fix this? 

Try using something other than Gnome Terminal; something multi-lingual.

Doug.